The gate of heaven (1)

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Marduk Prophecy:
The great-gate of heaven will be constantly open … The rivers will bring fish; field and acreage will be full of yield … Clouds will appear continually.

Adapa Myth 48-49:
When he went up to heaven, when he approached the Gate of Anu, Dumuzi (and) Gizzida were standing at the Gate of Anu. They saw him, Adapa, they cried ‘Mercy on us!’

Homer, Iliad 5.749-754:
And Hera swiftly touched the horses with the lash, and self-bidden groaned upon their hinges the gates of heaven which the Horae had in their keeping, to whom are entrusted great heaven and Olympus, whether to throw open the thick cloud or shut it to. There through the gate they drave their horses patient of the goad; and they found the son of Kronos as he sat apart from the other gods on the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus.

Homer, Iliad 8.393-396:
And Hera swiftly touched the horses with the lash, and self-bidden groaned upon their hinges the gates of heaven, which the Hours had in their keeping, to whom are entrusted great heaven and Olympus, whether to throw open the thick cloud or shut it to. There through the gate they drave their horses patient of the goad.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Adapa Myth 48-49
Homer, Iliad 5.749-754
Homer, Iliad 8.393-396
Marduk Prophecy

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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